‘Virgin and Child’ Painting Adorns New Forever Stamp

What:

The U.S. Postal Service is dedicating a new Christmas stamp featuring “Virgin

and Child,” an oil-on-panel painting from the first half of the 16th century by an

unidentified Florentine artist known as “the Master of Scandicci Lamentation.”

The first-day-of-issue event for the Forever stamp is free and open to the public

for those who have RSVP’d. News of the stamps is being shared with thehashtag

#VirginAndChildStamp

Who:

Jenny Utterback, the Postal Service’s vice president for organizational

development and dedicating official

When:

Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022, at 11 a.m. ET

Where:

Museum of Fine Arts Boston

465 Huntington Avenue

Boston, MA 02115

RSVP:

Dedication ceremony attendees are encouraged to RSVP at: uspscom/virginandchild

Background:

The painting depicts the Virgin Mary gazing downward at the infant Christ, one of

her arms holding him protectively at his waist, the other tenderly touching his arm,

while the Christ child turns his head to look out of the frame to the left

The 16th-century painting “Virgin and Child” is part of the Robert Dawson Evans

Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Art director Greg Breeding

designed the stamp